Referencing: Getting started

Before you start

Some details in the Library's referencing guides may differ from the assignment requirements for your unit.

Please check your unit guidelines as you may be penalised for not conforming.

Queries regarding referencing should be addressed to your lecturer or tutor.

Referencing software

If you are writing a long paper or starting a major piece of research, EndNote referencing software allows you to compile a database of references and automatically create bibliographies at the end of your documents. For more information see:

Referencing

What is referencing?

Referencingis a standardised method of acknowledging sources of information and ideas that you have used in your assignments, in a way that uniquely identifies their source. Direct quotations, facts and figures, as well as ideas and theories, from both published and unpublished works, must be referenced.

Why reference?

Referencing is necessary to avoid plagiarism, to verify quotations, and to enable readers to follow-up and read more fully the cited author's arguments.